Andreaux
Dabbler
- Joined
- Nov 17, 2019
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Hi all,
I might be out of my mind, but I am planning a new NAS system but can't right away afford all the disks I plan on putting in. I had the idea then to create a degraded zfs pool accounting for the soon-to-be-purchased drives that I will replace the "fake" offline drives in the pool with.
So in short, I am planning to have an 8 x 6TB pool and I would like to start with 2 drives (which I can have now) and create an 8-drive pool with 6 offline drives and replace then bring them on as I can go with sourcing the new ones.
Is there any danger in using this newly created 2/8 pool until I can add further drives?
Sorry for the newbie question :)
Any help appreciated.
I might be out of my mind, but I am planning a new NAS system but can't right away afford all the disks I plan on putting in. I had the idea then to create a degraded zfs pool accounting for the soon-to-be-purchased drives that I will replace the "fake" offline drives in the pool with.
So in short, I am planning to have an 8 x 6TB pool and I would like to start with 2 drives (which I can have now) and create an 8-drive pool with 6 offline drives and replace then bring them on as I can go with sourcing the new ones.
Is there any danger in using this newly created 2/8 pool until I can add further drives?
Sorry for the newbie question :)
Any help appreciated.